218. Tatar Women at Rest

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218. Tatar Women at Rest

Petre Iorgulescu Yor

1890, Râmnicu Sărat - 1939, Cluj

Estimate:

EUR 3.500 - 5.500

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EUR 3.500

oil on cardboard, 58.5 x 48.5 cm, 48,5x58,5, signed upper left, in black, "YOR"

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Iorgulescu-Yor was seduced by the ravishing specificity characteristic of Balchik, like many Romanian painters of the interwar period, who formed an artistic colony on the Black Sea coast in this town with an exotic air. The landscapes of the place form a special chapter of his work, marked by stylistic searches and experiments, using a method that Alexander Măciucă called that of "gaining solitude", which entailed the less ordinary or arbitrary use of current means, which in the sphere of chromaticity manifested by the contrasting and sometimes arbitrary association of colours. The process characterises a phase of creation that ended in the early 1930s, being outdated during the period of the "Tatar Women", a work that was probably painted between 1936 and 1937; a work on the same subject, treated in a similar manner, which bears this dating, is in the Dinu and Sevasta Vintilă Museum of Art in Topalu, being presented in the retrospective exhibition organised in 2005 at the Museum of Art Collections. The "Tatar Women" painting stands out due to its balanced composition, the simplified forms, purified of insignificant details, and the harmonious relations between colours. They are not as bright as in his landscapes, but are used in faded shades and bright tones applied on strictly limited surfaces. The white, diffuse light is reflected in white, matte accents on women's clothing, caught in a moment of respite that recalls their daily toil. The unusual pace of life in Balchik, the latency in which people gave themselves time to meditate, lends one of the local specific notes and transpires with great force in the creations of Romanian artists inspired by the landscapes revealed by this fascinating place.

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